Notable Patients
- Dadd, Richard, artist.
- Frith, John, would-be assailant of King George III.
- Frith, Mary (Moll Cutpurse), also known as Mary Frith or "The Roaring Girl", released from Bedlam in 1644 according to Bridewell records.
- Hadfield, James, would-be assassin of King George III.
- M'Naghten, Daniel, catalyst for the creation of the M'Naghten Rules (criteria for the defence of insanity in the British legal system) after the shooting of Edward Drummond.
- Martin, Jonathan, the man who set fire to York Minster
- Matthews, James Tilly, one time tea merchant and subject of the first book-length psychiatric case study.
- Nicholson, Margaret, would-be assassin of King George III.
- Oxford, Edward, tried for high treason after the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
- Snell, Hannah (1723-1792), sexual impostor and soldier. She spent the last six months of her life in Bethlem.
- Wain, Louis, artist.
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